Adventure Time with Finn and Jake
Adventure Time's pilot title card
Genre	Comedy/Adventure
Created by	Pendleton Ward
Creative director(s)	Patrick McHale
Starring	Jeremy Shada John DiMaggio Hynden Walch Tom Kenny Mark Hamill Dee Bradley Baker Olivia Olson Pendleton Ward
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2[1]
No. of episodes	26[2]
Production
Executive producer(s)	Derek Drymon Fred Seibert
Running time	22 minutes approx. (2x11 minutes)
Production company(s)	Frederator Studios Cartoon Network Studios
Broadcast
Original channel	Cartoon Network
Original airing	March 10, 2010[citation needed]

Adventure Time with Finn & Jake is an upcoming American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward, based on the animated short Adventure Time that aired as part of Frederator Studios' Random! Cartoons. The animated short was nominated for an Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject of 2006.^[3] The music included in the cartoon incorporates the MOS Technology SID sound processing chip of the Commodore 64^{[citation needed]}. The series includes many silly or mathematical outbursts, such as "Rhombus!" and "Algebraic!". In September 2008, the short was officially greenlighted for a series by Cartoon Network and the pilot is scheduled to air on March 10, 2010.^{[not in citation given][4][5][6]}

[edit] Plot

Adventure Time with Finn and Jake focuses on the awesome adventures undertaken by two close friends: Finn (a 12-year old boy with an awesome white hat) and Jake (a wise 28-year-old dog with magical powers) that dwell in the Land of Ooo.

[edit] Animated Short

Pen and Jake dance a dance that Jake "downloaded from the Internet".

The cartoon begins with Pen ('Finn' in the series) sleeping under a tree and Jake meditating. After they do a little dance (which Jake downloaded from the internet while meditating), Princess Bubblegum's Rainicorn (a unicorn/rainbow hybrid) flies by in tears. They discover that the Rainicorn is so sad because the princess is being imprisoned by the Ice King. Using snowballs, they battle their way past the Iceclops, Snow Golem, and other monsters that inhabit the Ice Kingdom.

Pen meets Abraham Lincoln when his mind is transported "back in time, and to Mars".

Eventually, Pen and Jake reach the Ice King's mountain lair. Pen and the Ice King fight while Jake remains outside flirting with the Rainicorn, ignoring the battle. Just when Pen seems to be gaining the upper hand, the Ice King uses his "frozen lightning bolts" to freeze Pen in a block of ice. For unexplained reasons, this transports Pen's mind "back in time and to Mars" where he has a short motivational conversation with Abraham Lincoln. After being told to believe in himself, Pen is returned to the present: just in time to see the Ice King fly away with Princess Bubblegum. Chasing after him using Jake's extendable legs, Pen rescues the princess from the Ice King's grasp. Jake pushes the magical crown off of the Ice King's head, thereby removing the King's source of power. The Ice King then plummets off screen, yelling a long list of complex threats of things he will do when he returns.

The story closes with the princess giving Pen a kiss, which embarrasses Pen greatly. He attempts to leave, but Jake claims that they have nowhere else to go and that there are no adventures that need them. Luckily, some nearby ninjas are stealing an old man's diamonds, and they both run off in pursuit.

Written and Storyboarded by: Pendleton Ward
Directed by: Larry Leichliter, Hugo Morales, and Pendleton Ward
Original Airdate: December 6, 2008 on Nicktoons Network

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The original Adventure Time short
• Adventure Time Production Blog
• Pendleton Ward's Official Website
• Frederator Studios, production house of the animated short
• Adventure Time at the Internet Movie Database